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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. ― Virginia Woolf

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. — Virginia Woolf

Historical Quote

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. ― Virginia Woolf

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

Quotes About Freedom

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

― Virginia Woolf

Intimacy is a difficult art.

― Virginia Woolf

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

― Virginia Woolf

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

― Virginia Woolf

I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

― Virginia Woolf

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

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

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.

― Virginia Woolf

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

― Virginia Woolf

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

― Virginia Woolf

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.

― Virginia Woolf

I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

― Virginia Woolf

We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

― Virginia Woolf

I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

― Virginia Woolf

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

― Virginia Woolf

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

― Virginia Woolf

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