Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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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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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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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