Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
VIRGINIA WOOLFGrowing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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