You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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 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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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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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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A light here required a shadow there.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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