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Virginia Woolf Inspirational Quotes (717)

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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
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If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.
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Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.
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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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more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another any leadership, any imposition of the will.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
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I will not be famous, great. I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.
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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
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You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
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Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?
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I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
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The compensation of growing old ... was simply this that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.
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If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. 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. They lose their sense of proportion.
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war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.
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I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.
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He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
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