Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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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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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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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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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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