Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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