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.
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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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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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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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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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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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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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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Each 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.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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