I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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 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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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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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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 and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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