Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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