Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLFMarvelous are the innocent.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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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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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 thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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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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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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