I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
VIRGINIA WOOLFGrowing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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