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Virginia Woolf Inspirational Quotes (717)

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I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.
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Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.
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O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the trees and rivers which alone can keep one cool and childlike in the midst of the troubles of the world!
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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 ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.
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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
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And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
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But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.
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But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.
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Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.
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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
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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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We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Like and like and like--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
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The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.
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I prefer men to cauliflowers
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