Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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 am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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 WOOLF