Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIf you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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 rooted, but I flow.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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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 meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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