Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBooks are the mirrors of the soul.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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