I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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 have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
VIRGINIA WOOLF