Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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