One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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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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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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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