When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBut beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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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 have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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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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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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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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