The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAll extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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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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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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