The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
VIRGINIA WOOLFGrowing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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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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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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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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