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“Chastity… has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.”

Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own

Source: A Room of One's Own

“Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the center which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“You’re the only person I’ve ever met who seems to have the faintest conception of what I mean when I say a thing.”

Virginia Woolf book The Voyage Out

Source: The Voyage Out

“Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.”

Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando

“For nothing was simply one thing.”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.”

Virginia Woolf

“The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.”

Virginia Woolf book The Waves

Source: The Waves

“Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.”

Virginia Woolf book The Waves

Source: The Waves

“Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.”

Virginia Woolf book Jacob's Room

Source: Jacob's Room

“O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!”

Virginia Woolf book The Waves

Source: The Waves

“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.”

Virginia Woolf book The Waves

Source: The Waves

“It is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people… Think of things in themselves.”

Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own

Source: A Room of One's Own

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

Virginia Woolf

Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919

“One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.”

Virginia Woolf

Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Six, 1936-1941

“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”

Virginia Woolf

“Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.”

Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own

Source: A Room of One's Own

“I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted; I have been torn apart.”

Virginia Woolf book The Waves

Source: The Waves