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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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• A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.

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  Healing, Hands, Perfect

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• The way to write well is to live intensely.

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  Writing, Way, Wells

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• Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

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  Book, Healing, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.311, OUP Oxford

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• The world is crammed with delightful things

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  World, Delightful, Delightful Things

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.66, 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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• 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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• A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

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  Life, Shade, Too Short

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.903, Delphi Classics

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• For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

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  Pleasure, Share, Relish

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2283, Delphi Classics

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

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  People, Soul, Unhappy

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

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• These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

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  Time, Believe, Optimistic

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

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  Greek, Useless, Language

  Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee (2000). “A room of one's own and other essays”

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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 compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

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  Strong, Passion, Light

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

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• I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

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  Way, Want, Married

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.485, Delphi Classics

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• Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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  Life, Order, Should

  Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose (2003). “The Mrs. Dalloway reader”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

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  Believe

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

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  Fire, Ideas, Able

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.216, Oxford University Press

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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.

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  Writing, Thinking, Names

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

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• It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

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  Sex, Men, Two

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.114

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• It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.

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  Choices, Living My Life

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• So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.

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  Journey, Vivid, Illness

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

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• How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.

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  Lovely, World, Goodness

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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