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.
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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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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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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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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