You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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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 would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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