Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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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.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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