Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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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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