Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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 feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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