When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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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