Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLFEach 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
VIRGINIA WOOLF