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Oneself Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable…
- 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…
- It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike…
- For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of…
- To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.
- So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?…
- No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
- It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became…
- That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under…
- For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
- The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a…
- The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no…
- I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
- 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…
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