Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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