Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAs a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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