Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
VIRGINIA WOOLF