I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAll extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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