Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIt is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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