Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThere was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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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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Fear no more, says the heart.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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