I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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Thinking is my fighting.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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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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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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