Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBetter was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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