Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
VIRGINIA WOOLFI 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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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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I 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.
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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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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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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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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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
VIRGINIA WOOLF