The vision of her own personality,...

The vision of her own personality, of herself as a real everlasting thing, different from anything else, unmergeable, like the sea or the wind, flashed into Rachel's mind, and she became profoundly excited at the thought of living.

- Virginia Woolf

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The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

- Virginia Woolf

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order

- Virginia Woolf

I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I’ll write, from this day forward, to please myself

- Virginia Woolf

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.

- Virginia Woolf

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

- Virginia Woolf

The fact about contemporaries is that they're doing the same thing on another railway line: one resents their distracting one, flashing past, the wrong way- something like that: from timidity, partly, one keeps one's eyes on one's own road.

- Virginia Woolf

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