When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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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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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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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