And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIt might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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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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