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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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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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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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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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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