The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIllusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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 see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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