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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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• My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

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  Happiness, Mind, Way

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

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  Real, Simple, Novelists

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

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  Horse, Blame, Praise

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

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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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• There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

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  Life, Dream, Hair

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1819, Delphi Classics

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• To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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  Motivational, Freedom, Self Control

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• Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

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  Motivational, Women, Power

  A Room of One's Own ch. 2 (1929)

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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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  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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• She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

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  Beach, Eye, Blue

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “To the Lighthouse”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

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  Reality, Tea, Cups Of Tea

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• The artist after all is a solitary being.

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  Artist, Solitary

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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

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  People, Different, Made

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

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• We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.

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  Lying, Sleep, Cutting

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1444, Delphi Classics

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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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• I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

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  Book, Reading, Sound

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

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• We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

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  Hands, Feet, Bird

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.104, Oxford University Press

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• One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.

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  Children, Animal, Vanity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.185, Wordsworth Editions

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• The depths of the sea are only water after all.

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  Sea, Water, Depth

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• Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.

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  Mean, Carpe Diem, Vanity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.618, 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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• There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

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  Imagination, Facts, Strange

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc

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