A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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