When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Writing 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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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