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.
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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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 enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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