When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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