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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFHumor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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