He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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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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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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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