One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
VIRGINIA WOOLFLove, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding 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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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