A light here required a shadow there.
VIRGINIA WOOLFNothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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 enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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