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.
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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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.
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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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