But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
VIRGINIA WOOLFNothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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 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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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 feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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 see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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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