A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIllusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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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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