A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThinking is my fighting.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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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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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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF