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 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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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 yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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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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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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