I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe depths of the sea are only water after all.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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 need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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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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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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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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