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Virginia Woolf Inspirational Quotes (717)

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Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.
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I grow numb I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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I see through most people I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.
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Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?
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If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
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Style is a very simple matter it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
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Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
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Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.
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All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence.
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We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship and yet at the same time we know that nothing of this sort matters love is not proved thus, nor great achievements completed thus so that we sport with the moment and preen our feathers in it lightly.
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writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.
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For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
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I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe it will be exquisite by September.
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what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.
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That complete statement which is literature.
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If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.
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loveliness is infernally sad.
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Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.
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