Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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