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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFHumor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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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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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 am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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