Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLFConsolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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