Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnd yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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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 have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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