I will go down with my colours flying.
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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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