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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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