To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI will go down with my colours flying.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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