In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
VIRGINIA WOOLFMelancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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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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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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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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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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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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