Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLFSomeone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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