To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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