I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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