Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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