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.
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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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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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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