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> [To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/to-let-oneself-be-carried-on-passively-is-unthinkable/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [“To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/to-tell-the-truth-about-oneself-to-discover-oneself-near-at-hand-is/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/no-need-to-hurry-no-need-to-sparkle-no-need-to-be-anybody-but-oneself/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/for-beyond-the-difficulty-of-communicating-oneself-there-is-the/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/i-feel-so-intensely-the-delights-of-shutting-oneself-up-in-a-little/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/it-is-curious-how-instinctively-one-protects-the-image-of-oneself/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/life-for-both-sexes-is-arduous-difficult-a-perpetual-struggle-more/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/that-would-be-a-glorious-life-to-addict-oneself-to-perfection-to/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/once-conform-once-do-what-other-people-do-because-they-do-it-and-a/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/to-be-silent-to-be-alone-all-the-being-and-the-doing-expansive/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/it-was-odd-she-thought-how-if-one-was-alone-one-leant-to-inanimate/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-most-important-thing-is-not-to-think-very-much-about-oneself-to/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-way-to-rock-oneself-back-into-writing-is-this-first-gentle/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/so-he-was-deserted-the-whole-world-was-clamouring-kill-yourself-kill/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/for-now-she-need-not-think-of-anybody-she-could-be-herself-by-herself-2/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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## Other authors on Oneself

## More by Virginia Woolf

> [Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/fatigue-is-the-safest-sleeping-draught/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-train-slows-and-lengthens-as-we-approach-london-the-centre-and-my/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/across-the-broad-continent-of-a-woman-s-life-falls-the-shadow-of-a/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/other-worshipful-objects-were-content-with-worship-men-women-god-all/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/why-does-samuel-butler-say-wise-men-never-say-what-they-think-of/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/sometimes-he-woke-with-a-brain-like-lead-at-others-it-was-as-if-a/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-extraordinary-woman-depends-on-the-ordinary-woman-it-is-only-when/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/a-veil-of-insanity-everywhere-oh-why-i-was-born-in-this-age-it-is-a/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/love-ought-to-stop-on-both-sides-don-t-you-think-simultaneously-he/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/it-is-so-vast-an-alleviation-to-be-able-to-point-for-another-to-look/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/what-a-vast-fertility-of-pleasure-books-hold-for-me-i-think-i-could/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“what a luxury to be alone once more,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/what-a-luxury-to-be-alone-once-more/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“...a woman writing thinks back through her mothers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/a-woman-writing-thinks-back-through-her-mothers/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/for-one-s-children-so-often-gave-one-s-own-perceptions-a-little/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/she-would-not-say-of-anyone-in-the-world-now-that-they-were-this-or/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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