When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLFThey went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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.
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