Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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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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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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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