Love had a thousand shapes.
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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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.
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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF