In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIllness 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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 feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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