Virginia Woolf on beginning
“Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.”
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf 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.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf A light here required a shadow there.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf Books are the mirrors of the soul.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf I am rooted, but I flow.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf 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.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf
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