Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWe can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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