In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIntimacy is a difficult art.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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