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Virginia Woolf Inspirational Quotes (717)

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There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.
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Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.
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They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.
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... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.
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But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.
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Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
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Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.
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... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.
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I will dream today for I must unscrew my head somehow.
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Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.
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A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.
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... pure honesty is a doubtful quality it means often lack of imagination.
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The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.
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... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.
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What a comfort is friendship in this world.
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O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!
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Language is wine upon the lips.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.
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I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.
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Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.
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There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.
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