Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWhen you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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