I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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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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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLF