And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
VIRGINIA WOOLFGrowing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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