Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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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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A light here required a shadow there.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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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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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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