Virginia Woolf Quotes, Life Quotes, Confidence Quotes

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

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The way to write well is to live intensely.

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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

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Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

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to teach without zest is a crime.

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So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

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Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

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For nothing was simply one thing.

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. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

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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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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

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It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.

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Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

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To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

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All artists need a room of their own

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I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

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All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side.

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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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