Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBut beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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