You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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