It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
VIRGINIA WOOLFNo need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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 like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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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 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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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