A light here required a shadow there.
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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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 meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
VIRGINIA WOOLF