Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI like to have space to spread my mind out in.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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Fear no more, says the heart.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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