If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLFHe smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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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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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF