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#1

“I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: desire, dreams, night

87 likes

#2

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: clouds, star

2021 likes

#3

“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

tags: women

21194 likes

#4

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: writing

3050 likes

#5

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women

2603 likes

#6

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
― Virginia Woolf

2314 likes

#7

“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

tags: calming, reassuring, true

2314 likes

#8

“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf

1626 likes

#9

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

tags: men, rescuing, women

4573 likes

#10

“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

tags: freedom, women, writing

12716 likes

#11

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

tags: food, love

4389 likes

#12

“By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: dreams, life, truth

210 likes

#13

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

2948 likes

#14

“I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour
to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my
world.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

328 likes

#15

“We are all swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shade...”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: life, the-waves, virginia-woolf

12 likes

#16

“I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

222 likes

#17

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

968 likes

#18

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

tags: words

601 likes

#19

“I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

398 likes

#20

“On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

168 likes

#21

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

tags: existence, identity

249 likes

#22

“But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

70 likes

#23

“But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: solitude

48 likes

#24

“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: poem

298 likes

#25

“I am never stagnant; I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

40 likes

#26

“I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

21 likes

#27

“It is strange that we, who are capable of so much suffering, should inflict so much suffering.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

27 likes

#28

“These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

105 likes

#29

“The moment was all; the moment was enough.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

154 likes

#30

“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

707 likes

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