Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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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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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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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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