As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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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Fear no more, says the heart.
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