The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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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.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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