We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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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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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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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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