Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
VIRGINIA WOOLFHumor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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