He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnd yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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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Fear no more, says the heart.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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