I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
VIRGINIA WOOLFNothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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