I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF