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Above all you must illumine yo...

Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Humor is the first of the gift...

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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You cannot find peace by avoid...

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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I can only note that the past ...

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.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

One cannot think well, love we...

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

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

If you do not tell the truth a...

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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For most of history, Anonymous...

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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As a woman I have no country. ...

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

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Why are women... so much more ...

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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Each has his past shut in him ...

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

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The eyes of others our prisons...

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Once conform, once do what oth...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

A woman must have money and a ...

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

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Arrange whatever pieces come y...

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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Mental fight means thinking ag...

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The older one grows, the more ...

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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I thought how unpleasant it is...

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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Women have served all these ce...

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

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Every secret of a writer's sou...

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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These are the soul's changes. ...

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

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