Virginia Woolf Quotes, Mind Quotes

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

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

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Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

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On or about December 1910, human character changed.

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And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

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Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

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I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.

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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

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I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

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It is no use trying to sum people up.

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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

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It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

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For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

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I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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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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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

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You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

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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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After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

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