The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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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 always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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