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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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