She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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 am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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 feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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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