I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFor 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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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.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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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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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF