Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFor 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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