When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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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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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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 look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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