We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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