It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI like to have space to spread my mind out in.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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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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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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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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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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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