I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBetter was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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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.
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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