I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
VIRGINIA WOOLFHe who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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.
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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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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