It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnd all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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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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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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