Virginia Woolf Quotes

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  No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

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  Inspirational, Needs, Sparkle

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.570, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

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  Imagination, Facts, Strange

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

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  Self, Goes On

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2936, Delphi Classics

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  You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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  Life, Meaningful, Peace

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  I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

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  Desire, Daily Life, Inarticulate

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A moment's liberty: the shorter diary”, Vintage

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• The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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  Confidence, Love Yourself, Eye

  Virginia Woolf (2010). “Monday or Tuesday: And Other Short Stories”, p.41, The Floating Press

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• I am rooted, but I flow.

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  Inspirational Life, Healing, Flow

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.86, Collector's Library

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• A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

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  Feminist, Telling The Truth

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• Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

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  Flower

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• The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

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  Dark, Illumination, Miracle

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.361, Wordsworth Editions

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• Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you

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  Love, Thinking Of You, Forget

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• Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

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  Sleep, Draught, Fatigue

  Virginia Woolf, Kate Flint (1999). “Jacob's Room”, p.90, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

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  Caring, Thinking, Essence

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928”, Chatto & Windus

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• The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

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  Drawing, Mind, Receiving

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2593, Delphi Classics

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• By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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  Dream, Waking, Life Is

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

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  Reality, Tea, Cups Of Tea

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• Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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  Book, Reading, Mirrors

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1835, Delphi Classics

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• Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

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  Interesting, Truthful, Results

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own (Annotated)”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thoughts without words… Can that be?

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• A light here required a shadow there.

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  Light, Shadow

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.290, Wordsworth Editions

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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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  Love, Romantic, Stars

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.254, Virginia Woolf

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• All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

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  Feelings, Madness, Extremes

  "Orlando: A Biography".

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• If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3151, Delphi Classics

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• Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

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  Growing Up, Order, Losing

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