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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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