Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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