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Virginia Woolf Inspirational Quotes (717)

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A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.
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We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.
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old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.
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Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
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Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.
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Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.
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How remorseless life is!
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literature is the record of our discontent.
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Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.
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We insist, it seems, on living.
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The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.
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In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.
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But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes also to some nervous fibre, or fanlike membrane in my species.
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Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.
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if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.
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I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.
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You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?
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