When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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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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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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