I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThinking is my fighting.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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