Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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Fear no more, says the heart.
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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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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