I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThey went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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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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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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