And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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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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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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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We 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.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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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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