I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
VIRGINIA WOOLFUntil we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume 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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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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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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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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A light here required a shadow there.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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