Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWriting is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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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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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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