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.
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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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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 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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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