And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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 like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
VIRGINIA WOOLF