Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWomen have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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