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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFEach 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.
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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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