A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
VIRGINIA WOOLFYou cannot find peace by avoiding life.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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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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