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 WOOLFMarvelous are the innocent.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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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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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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