It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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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