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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• 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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• But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

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  Happiness, Past, Thinking

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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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• I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

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  Phrases, Wander, Single Word

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.13, Collector's Library

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

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  Feminist, Telling The Truth

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

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  Growing Up, Order, Losing

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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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• To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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  Motivational, Freedom, Self Control

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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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• 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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• 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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• I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Healing, Delight

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.48, Delphi Classics

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• It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

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  Women, Simple, Womanly

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.136

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• Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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  Incessant, Solitary, Confinement

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.341, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

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  Silence, Silent

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• Words belong to each other.

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  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.88, Oxford University Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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