Virginia Woolf on effort
“The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.”
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Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf 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.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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