I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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 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 feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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