I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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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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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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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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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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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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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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