When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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 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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A light here required a shadow there.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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