Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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 meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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 have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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