Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
VIRGINIA WOOLFYou cannot find peace by avoiding life.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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 will go down with my colours flying.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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 would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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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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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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