No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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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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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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