But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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 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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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