Virginia Woolf Quotes

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Needs, Sparkle

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

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• People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, People, Ask Me

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• You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Thank You Sister, Colour

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• Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. Any help we can give you must be different from that you can give yourselves, and perhaps the value of that help may lie in the fact of that difference.

  Virginia Woolf

  Lying, Eye, Differences

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2751, Delphi Classics

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Self, Goes On

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

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• My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Brain, Madness, Scrap

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  You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Meaningful, Peace

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

  Virginia Woolf

  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.

  Virginia Woolf

  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

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Thinking Of You, Forget

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• I am rooted, but I flow.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational Life, Healing, Flow

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

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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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Caring, Thinking, Essence

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

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, People, Used

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Growing Up, Order, Losing

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• For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Difficulty, Communicate, Oneself

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2279, Delphi Classics

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Interesting, Truthful, Results

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

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Feminist, Telling The Truth

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• I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

  Virginia Woolf

  Healing, Overwhelmed, Found

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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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Romantic, Stars

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

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• I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

  Virginia Woolf

  Space, Mind, Spread

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

  Virginia Woolf

  Acquiescence, Intensity, Passive

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4552, Delphi Classics

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• And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
  and changing leaves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Tree

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.331, Wordsworth Editions

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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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Flower

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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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Freedom, Women, Reading

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

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• If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

  Virginia Woolf

  Successful, Night, Sight

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