Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWomen and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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 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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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