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There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.
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for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge
Virginia Woolf
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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
Virginia Woolf
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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.
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I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me. Out of my suffering I will do it. I will knock. I will enter.
Virginia Woolf
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I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.
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Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
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To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.
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The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
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Women alone stir my imagination.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
Virginia Woolf
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[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.
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I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.
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All extremes are dangerous.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
Virginia Woolf