He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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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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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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