A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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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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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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