Virginia Woolf Quotes

Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.

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I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

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It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

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I will go down with my colours flying.

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Life's bare as a bone.

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

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But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

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Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason, and mounted one on top of another, and lunged and plunged in the darkness or the daylight (for night and day, month and year ran shapelessly together) in idiot games, until it seemed as if the universe were battling and tumbling, in brute confusion and wanton lust aimlessly by itself.

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Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

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The truer the facts the better the fiction.

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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

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Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

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Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read.

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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

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He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.

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...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

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

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Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.

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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

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