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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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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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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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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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