If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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 and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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 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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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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