When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLFHe who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF