Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.
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The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.
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Still, life had a way of adding day to day
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. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.
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The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
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Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
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Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.
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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man. Virginia Woolf
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Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.