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.
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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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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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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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