Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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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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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
VIRGINIA WOOLF