I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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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 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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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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