And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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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Fear no more, says the heart.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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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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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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