A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
VIRGINIA WOOLFHumor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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