If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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.
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