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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFOne cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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