Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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