A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBe truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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 to have space to spread my mind out in.
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