You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFor 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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 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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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 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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF