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 WOOLFSomeone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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