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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFHumor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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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 have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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