For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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