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Let us simmer over our incalc...

Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

A feminist is any woman who t...

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

It would be a thousand pities...

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I feel so intensely the delig...

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.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

But beauty must be broken dai...

But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

For beyond the difficulty of ...

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

If people are highly successf...

If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. 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. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

There must be another life, s...

There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

And all the lives we ever liv...

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.

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By the truth we are undone. L...

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I have a deeply hidden and in...

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Lock up your libraries if you...

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

How many times have people us...

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Above all you must illumine y...

Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Incessant company is as bad a...

Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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No need to hurry. No need to ...

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

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In solitude we give passionat...

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Yield to that strange passion...

Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

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Second hand books are wild bo...

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I am made and remade continua...

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

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