Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
VIRGINIA WOOLFLiterature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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