I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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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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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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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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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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