He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF