Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
VIRGINIA WOOLFNothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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