Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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