It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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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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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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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