Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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