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.
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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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 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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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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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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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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