Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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