It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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 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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF