Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
VIRGINIA WOOLFMoments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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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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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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