1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf
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For,” the outsider will say, “in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country.
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Any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at.
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Las nubes [...] se movían libremente, como si estuvieran destinadas a ir de oeste a este en una misión de la mayor importancia que jamás sería revelada.
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I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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Lily Briscoe își dădea seama de tot ce simțea [Tansley]. Așezată fiind în fața lui, cum ar fi putut să nu vadă clar, ca într-o radiografie, coastele și oasele femurale ale dorinței de afirmare ale acestui om, detașîndu-se întunecate în ceața alburie a cărnii – ceața aceea subțiratecă în care convențiile sociale învăluiseră arzătoarea lui dorință de a se amesteca în conversație?
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Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.
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Nada [...] es tan celestial como resistir y ceder; ceder y resistir.
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In other words, now that she had rid herself of falsehood, that young woman had only to be herself. Ah, but what is "herself"? I mean, what is a woman? I assure you, I do not know, I do not believe that you know.
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Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women
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