I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIllusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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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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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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 am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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