I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
VIRGINIA WOOLFMoments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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 enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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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