Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLFShe 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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