Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA light here required a shadow there.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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