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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFNothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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