I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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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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