I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBooks are the mirrors of the soul.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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