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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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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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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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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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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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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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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She 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.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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