Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.
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... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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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For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.
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Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.
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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man. Virginia Woolf
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The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
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I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.