16 Quotes by Virginia Woolf about solitude
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Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.
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She liked to be alone; she liked to be herself
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Talk of solitude (...). It is the last resort of the civilised: our souls are so creased and soured in meaning we can only unfold them when we are alone. (5/4/1927 - From a Letter to Vita Sackville-West)
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I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.
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Seule je tombe souvent dans le néant. Je dois poser le pied prudemment sur le rebord du monde, de peur de tomber dans le néant. Je suis forcée de me cogner la tête contre une porte bien dure, pour me contraindre à rentrer dans mon propre corps.
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There was an emptiness about the heart of life; an attic room. Women must put off their rich apparel. At midday they must disrobe.
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But we-' she glanced at him as if to ascertain his position, 'we see each other only now and then-''Like lights in a storm-''In the midst of a hurricane,' she concluded, as the window shook beneath the pressure of the wind.
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