Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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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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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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