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Virginia Woolf

21 quotes

Quotes by Virginia Woolf

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."
"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."
"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."
"As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world."
"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
"To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away..."
"By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream"
"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."