When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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 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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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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