Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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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 don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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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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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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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 like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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