Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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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 have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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 meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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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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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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
VIRGINIA WOOLF