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.
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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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