Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI will go down with my colours flying.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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 always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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 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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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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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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
VIRGINIA WOOLF






