Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
VIRGINIA WOOLFYes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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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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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLF






