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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFGrowing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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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 have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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