There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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