Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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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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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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