Virginia Woolf Quotes, Light Quotes, Soul Quotes

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

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It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

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Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.

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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

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The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.

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When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre

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To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

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The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

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Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

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It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together

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As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

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For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

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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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Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

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to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

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...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its solitude, though once seen. *** Here sitting on the world, she thought, for she could not shake herself free from the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time, as a traveller, even though he is half asleep, knows, looking out of the train window, that he must look now, for he will never see that town, or that mule-cart, or that woman at work in the fields, again.

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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

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