But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBetter was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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 will go down with my colours flying.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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