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“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

tags: books, metaphor, soul

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#2

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

tags: men, rescuing, women

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#3

“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

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#4

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

tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth

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#5

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: life

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#6

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

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“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

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#8

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

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#9

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

tags: sadness

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#10

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: fiction, money, on-writing, virgin, women, writing

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#11

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

tags: love, poetry, women

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#12

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: obsession

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#13

“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: poetry

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#14

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: living, soul

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#15

“I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

tags: lies, poetry, promises

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#16

“As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.”
― Anne Sexton

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#17

“I like you; your eyes are full of language."

[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]”
― Anne Sexton

tags: expression, expressiveness, eyes, language

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#18

“I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

tags: almosts, collection

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#19

“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: death, life, poison

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#20

“Perhaps I am no one.
True, I have a body
and I cannot escape from it.
I would like to fly out of my head,
but that is out of the question.”
― Anne Sexton

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#21

“Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: pictures, soul, wish

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#22

“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
― Anne Sexton

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#23

“The joy that isn't shared dies young.”
― Anne Sexton

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#24

“I am God, la de dah.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

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#25

“Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.”
― Anne Sexton

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#26

“I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

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#27

“Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.”
― Anne Sexton

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#28

“O starry night, This is how I want to die”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

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#29

“Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself,
Counting this row and that row of moccasins
Waiting on the silent shelf.”
― Anne Sexton

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#30

“God owns heaven but He craves the earth.”
― Anne Sexton

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