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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me

Virginia Woolf

They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Break Up Effort Love Mind Sad
I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Ability Accident Death Friendship Lost Street
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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Beautiful Emotion Memories Past Present Time
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Calm Ignorance Life One Liner Peace
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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Book Charm Lack Library Togetherness
For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Book Each Other Habit Judgement Literature Separate
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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Beginning Burn Poet Time Women Work
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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Bury Flesh Moments Pain Tears Togetherness
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Melancholy Night Sound Winter
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Change Leaf Life Live Reality Tree
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Book Mirror One Liner Reading Soul
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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Except Indifference Love People Relationship Strange
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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Delight Healing Intense Music Shut World
Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Consciousness Experience Human Illness Perception Truth
All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Associate Feeling Madness One Liner
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Food Love Sleep Thinking

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