Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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Thinking is my fighting.
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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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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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A light here required a shadow there.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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