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Short Story Writer Inspirational Quotes (8925)

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Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
Virginia Woolf
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What a lark! What a plunge!
Virginia Woolf
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Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
Virginia Woolf
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All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.
Virginia Woolf
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
Virginia Woolf
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I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me what would you answer?
Virginia Woolf
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Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.
Virginia Woolf
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
Virginia Woolf
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If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?
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Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.
Virginia Woolf
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Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.
Virginia Woolf
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For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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To be silent to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
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I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.
Virginia Woolf
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
Virginia Woolf
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I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.
Virginia Woolf
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One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.
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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact the fertile fact the fact that suggests and engenders.
Virginia Woolf
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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Virginia Woolf
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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
Virginia Woolf
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