I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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 like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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