I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole 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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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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