Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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 see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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