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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFear no more, says the heart.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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