All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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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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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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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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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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