Virginia Woolf Quotes, Happy Quotes, Imagination Quotes

But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.

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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

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The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.

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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

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Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

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All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

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If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

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It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

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Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

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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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The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.

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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

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