Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFriendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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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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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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