In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
VIRGINIA WOOLFGrowing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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