Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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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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