Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
VIRGINIA WOOLFShe 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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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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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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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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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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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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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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