It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
VIRGINIA WOOLFYou cannot find peace by avoiding life.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Thinking is my fighting.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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