I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLFMelancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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