Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF