When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLFSecond hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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