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.
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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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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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 always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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