You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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