They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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 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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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