A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
VIRGINIA WOOLFNothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Thinking is my fighting.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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 depths of the sea are only water after all.
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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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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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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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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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