Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThinking is my fighting.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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 people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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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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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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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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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