All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
VIRGINIA WOOLFLove had a thousand shapes.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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 would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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