I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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