No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
VIRGINIA WOOLFLiterature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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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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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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