There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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.
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