Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
VIRGINIA WOOLFI need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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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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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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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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 meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
VIRGINIA WOOLF