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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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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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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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