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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• We insist, it seems, on living.

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  Seems

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.691, Wordsworth Editions

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• To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

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  Writing, Know How, Knows

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.167, 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 must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Thinking, Names

  "A Moment's Liberty". Book by Virginia Woolf, 1990.

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• My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Brain, Madness, Scrap

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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 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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  You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Meaningful, Peace

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• What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

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  Dark, Simple, Illumination

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

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

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  Difficulty, Communicate, Oneself

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

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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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• 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?

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  Life, People, Used

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

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  Space, Mind, Spread

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

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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'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

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  Self, Sick, Want

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.548, 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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• Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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  Heart, Light, Treasure

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Monday or Tuesday”, p.5, Virginia Woolf

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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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