I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIt might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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