You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFor books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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