There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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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