I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIntimacy is a difficult art.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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 make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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