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 feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

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  Feminist, Telling The Truth

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  You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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  Life, Meaningful, Peace

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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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• Intimacy is a difficult art.

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  Art, Intimacy, Difficult

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.331, 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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• I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

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  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  "The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920-1924".

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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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  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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• 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 in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

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  Sky, Mood

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• Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

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  Passion, Yield, Rooms

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

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• I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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  Creativity, Creative, Innovation

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.31

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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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• 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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  Silence, Needs, Done

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1377, Delphi Classics

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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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• When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

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  Stars, Matter, Affair

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.170, Virginia Woolf

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• Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

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  Play, Support, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2281, Delphi Classics

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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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• The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

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  Reading, Giving, Advice

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2597, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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.

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  Successful, Night, Sight

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• I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

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  Shadow, Skins, Feels

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• How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

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  Coffee, Sea, Knives

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.253, Collector's Library

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• Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

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  Dream, Wine, Sleep

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