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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIllness 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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