Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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