Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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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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