The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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