Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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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A light here required a shadow there.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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