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More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
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.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
