Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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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.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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