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 WOOLFI don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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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 enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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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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