I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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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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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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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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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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