When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLFYou cannot find peace by avoiding life.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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