A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire 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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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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