Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
VIRGINIA WOOLFNothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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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 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 like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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