I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWomen have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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