Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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