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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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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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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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
VIRGINIA WOOLF