“I am rooted, but I flow.”
— Virginia Woolf
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
“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.”
“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”
“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”
“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.”
“A light here required a shadow there.”
“Thinking is my fighting.”
“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.”
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
“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.”
“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”
“It’s my choice, to choose how to live my life.”
“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
“Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.”
“Language is wine upon the lips.”
“The way to write well is to live intensely.”
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
“Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One’s Mind about Another Person.”
“Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.”
“I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.”
“To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”
“I’m terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.”
“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.”
“I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”
“The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?”
“Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.”
“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?”
“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.”
“People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.”
“Fear no more, says the heart...”
“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”
“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
“The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.”
“She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.”
“Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.”
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