Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnd yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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