Virginia Woolf Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, House Quotes

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 feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

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To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.

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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

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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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I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

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

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

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.

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Fear no more, says the heart.

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I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

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Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.

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We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that nothing of this sort matters; love is not proved thus, nor great achievements completed thus; so that we sport with the moment and preen our feathers in it lightly.

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