One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
VIRGINIA WOOLFConsolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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