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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWomen have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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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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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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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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