No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBut nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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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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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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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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