When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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A light here required a shadow there.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLF






