Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
VIRGINIA WOOLF