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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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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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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.
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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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