When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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 like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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