I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
VIRGINIA WOOLFConsolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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