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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBut beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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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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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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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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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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