Virginia Woolf Quotes

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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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  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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  You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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  Life, Meaningful, Peace

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

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  Feminist, Telling The Truth

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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.

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

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  Growing Up, Order, Losing

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• I prefer men to cauliflowers

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  Men, Cauliflower

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.3, Broadview Press

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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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• If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3151, 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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• 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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• One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

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  Silence, Silent

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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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• 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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• Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

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  Havens

  Virginia Woolf (1978). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920-1924”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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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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  As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

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  Inspirational, Country, Strong Women

  Three Guineas pt. 3 (1938)

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• Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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  Book, Reading, Mirrors

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1835, Delphi Classics

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• Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

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  Long Ago, Would Be, I Realized

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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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