Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Each 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.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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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