A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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 would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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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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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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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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