I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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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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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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 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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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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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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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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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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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