I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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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