It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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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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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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