Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Virginia Woolf quotes

• Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

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• The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

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• To love makes one solitary.

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• Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

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• I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

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• Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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• It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

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• Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

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• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

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• I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

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• My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud.

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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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• Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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• Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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• As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

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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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• Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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• A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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• The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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• Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

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• He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

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• Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

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• You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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• As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

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