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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFYou cannot find peace by avoiding life.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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