Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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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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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
VIRGINIA WOOLF