And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWe are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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I 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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF