Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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A light here required a shadow there.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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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 need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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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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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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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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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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