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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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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 have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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