When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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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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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
VIRGINIA WOOLF