I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLFMoments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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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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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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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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