Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
VIRGINIA WOOLFMoments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Second 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.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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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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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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