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 WOOLFWomen have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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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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