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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  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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  You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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  Life, Meaningful, Peace

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

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  Growing Up, Order, Losing

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

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  Silence, Silent

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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 am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

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  People, Different, Made

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.97, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Love had a thousand shapes.

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  Love, Shapes, Thousand

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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  Life, People, Used

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• I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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  People, Silence, Sublime

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• Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

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  Freedom, Women, Reading

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.610, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• Fear no more, says the heart.

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  Heart, Mrs Dalloway

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.39, Broadview Press

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