Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIntimacy is a difficult art.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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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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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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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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