Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLFUntil we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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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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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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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF






