No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAll extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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