For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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 feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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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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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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