Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWhen you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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