A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBut beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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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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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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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 am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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