I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIntimacy is a difficult art.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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 thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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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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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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