Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIllusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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 feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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