I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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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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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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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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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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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Thinking is my fighting.
VIRGINIA WOOLF