When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLFEach 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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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