Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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.
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To 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.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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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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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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