Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnd yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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