Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
VIRGINIA WOOLF