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.
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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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.
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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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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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