A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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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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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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