It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBut beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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 can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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