"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order……" — Virginia Woolf

"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

— Virginia Woolf

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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung…
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is… — Robert Barclay
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any… — Edward de Bono
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money… — Eli Broad
As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge. — Jeb Bush
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly… — Smedley Butler
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement;… — Vince Cable
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it. — Taylor Caldwell
Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to… — Alexander Hamilton
Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and… — George Fordyce

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