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

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

Self, Goes On

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2936, Delphi Classics

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

Inspirational, Needs, Sparkle

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.570, Wordsworth Editions

Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

Wall, Writing, Bricks

Virginia Woolf (1976). “The question of things happening”, Vintage

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you

Love, Thinking Of You, Forget

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Life, Meaningful, Peace

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

Desire, Daily Life, Inarticulate

Virginia Woolf (1990). “A moment's liberty: the shorter diary”, Vintage

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Confidence, Love Yourself, Eye

Virginia Woolf (2010). “Monday or Tuesday: And Other Short Stories”, p.41, The Floating Press

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

Feminist, Telling The Truth

I am rooted, but I flow.

Inspirational Life, Healing, Flow

Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.86, Collector's Library

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.

Caring, Thinking, Essence

Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928”, Chatto & Windus

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

Happiness, Past, Thinking

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Growing Up, Order, Losing

Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

Interesting, Truthful, Results

Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own (Annotated)”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Inspirational, Honesty, Lying

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3151, Delphi Classics

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

Love, Romantic, Stars

Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.254, Virginia Woolf

One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

Silence, Silent

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

Life, People, Used

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

Flower

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Inspirational, Country, Strong Women

Three Guineas pt. 3 (1938)

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

Love, Food, Sleep

1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

Dark, Illumination, Miracle

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.361, Wordsworth Editions

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Book, Reading, Mirrors

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1835, Delphi Classics

Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

Havens

Virginia Woolf (1978). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920-1924”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

A light here required a shadow there.

Light, Shadow

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.290, Wordsworth Editions

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.

Coffee, Sea, Knives

Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.253, Collector's Library

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