I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWriting is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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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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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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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