The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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 most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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