I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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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