When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFor this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLF