I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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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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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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 people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
VIRGINIA WOOLF