She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
VIRGINIA WOOLFNothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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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 enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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A light here required a shadow there.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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