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More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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.
We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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.
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
