I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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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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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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 am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF