Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
VIRGINIA WOOLFHe smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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 feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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 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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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