When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIt might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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