I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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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 and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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