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.
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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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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