Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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