Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnd all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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A light here required a shadow there.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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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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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