To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
VIRGINIA WOOLFSecond 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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