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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFEach has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
VIRGINIA WOOLF