I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFor books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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 always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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