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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWhen you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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