A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIn solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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