To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
VIRGINIA WOOLFArrange whatever pieces come your way.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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 don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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A light here required a shadow there.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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