Virginia Woolf Quotes

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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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• And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life Is, Exciting, Imaginary

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Meaningful, Peace

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

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Different, Made

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.97, Virginia Woolf

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• Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reality, Tea, Cups Of Tea

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• I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Soul, Unhappy

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). “A change of perspective”, Vintage

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• A light here required a shadow there.

  Virginia Woolf

  Light, Shadow

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.290, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Feelings, Madness, Extremes

  "Orlando: A Biography".

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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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• It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Dream, Truth

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• 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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• No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

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  Believe, Passion, Cutting

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Intimacy is a difficult art.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Intimacy, Difficult

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.331, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

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

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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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• 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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Giving, Advice

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

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• Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

  Virginia Woolf

  Horse, Blame, Praise

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.819, Delphi Classics

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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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• In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Memories, Giving

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• The way to write well is to live intensely.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Way, Wells

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