Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIllusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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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 eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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