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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBut beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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 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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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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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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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