Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI like to have space to spread my mind out in.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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