But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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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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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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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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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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