A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThere was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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