The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWhen I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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Fear no more, says the heart.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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