He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWe are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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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 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.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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