Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIllusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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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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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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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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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.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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