Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAll extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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To 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.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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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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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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