The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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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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