I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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