Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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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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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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 don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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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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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 am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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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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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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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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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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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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