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The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.
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There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.
Virginia Woolf
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
Virginia Woolf -
I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
Virginia Woolf -
I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.
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Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.
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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia Woolf
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My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.
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But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.
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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
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There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?
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Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.
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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Virginia Woolf
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To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.
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If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.
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The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
Virginia Woolf -
Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)
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The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
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Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.
Virginia Woolf
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
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The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.
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what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.
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Only longing can fill with more of itself.
Virginia Woolf