Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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