And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIt is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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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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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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