I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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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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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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