Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
VIRGINIA WOOLFNothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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