He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThey went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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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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