Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
VIRGINIA WOOLF