The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFriendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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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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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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