Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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 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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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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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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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
VIRGINIA WOOLF