Intimacy is a difficult art.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI will go down with my colours flying.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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