It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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 can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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