A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
VIRGINIA WOOLFShe 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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