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  • #1
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #2
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #3
    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #4
    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #5
    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #6
    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

  • #7
    Virginia Woolf
    “Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #8
    Virginia Woolf
    “I am rooted, but I flow.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #9
    Virginia Woolf
    “Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #10
    Virginia Woolf
    “Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #11
    Virginia Woolf
    “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #12
    Virginia Woolf
    “I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #13
    Virginia Woolf
    “He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”
    Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

  • #14
    Virginia Woolf
    “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...”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #15
    Virginia Woolf
    “What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
    Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

  • #16
    Virginia Woolf
    “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
    Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

  • #17
    Virginia Woolf
    “I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #18
    Virginia Woolf
    “When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  • #19
    Virginia Woolf
    “Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence”
    Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

  • #20
    Virginia Woolf
    “I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ”
    Virginia Woolf
    tags: age

  • #21
    Virginia Woolf
    “I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer? ”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #22
    Virginia Woolf
    “I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Pargiters

  • #23
    Virginia Woolf
    “She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.”
    Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
    tags: life

  • #24
    Virginia Woolf
    “The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #25
    Virginia Woolf
    “Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.”
    Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

  • #26
    Virginia Woolf
    “It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #27
    Virginia Woolf
    “My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #28
    Virginia Woolf
    “He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #29
    Virginia Woolf
    “I am not one and simple, but complex and many.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  • #30
    Virginia Woolf
    “I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”
    Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room



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