Virginia Woolf quotes
All extremes of feeling are allied with madness. 
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. 
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. 
The beauty of the world... has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. 
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 Short quotes ⇑
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All Virginia Woolf quotes ⇑
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness-I am nothing.
I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.
Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.