For 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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnd yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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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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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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