Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLFGrowing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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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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