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#1

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#2

“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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#3

“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: optimism

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#4

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
― Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

tags: desire, disatisfaction, life

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#5

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: words

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#6

“He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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#7

“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, misogyny, morality, protectiveness, social-norms, stereotypes, womanhood, women

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#8

“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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#9

“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.”
― Virginia Woolf

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#10

“I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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#11

“I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.”
― Virginia Woolf

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#12

“I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

tags: the-voyage-out, virginia-woolf

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#13

“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.”
― Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries

tags: love

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#14

“It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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#15

“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: death, friendship, pain

445 likes

#16

“To love makes one solitary.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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#17

“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

tags: inspirational

366 likes

#18

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: art

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#19

“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#20

“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: introspection, self-reflection

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#21

“Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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#22

“I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#23

“I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#24

“I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: learning, reading

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#25

“Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: inspirational

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#26

“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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#27

“But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: literary-taste

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#28

“I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#29

“It is no use trying to sum people up.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

tags: people

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#30

“Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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