Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBut beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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A light here required a shadow there.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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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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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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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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