I am rooted, but I flow.
VIRGINIA WOOLFHumor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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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 like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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