Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
VIRGINIA WOOLFSomeone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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