Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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 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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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