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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWe are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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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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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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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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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