A light here required a shadow there.
VIRGINIA WOOLFYou cannot find peace by avoiding life.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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 am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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