It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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 don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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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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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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