I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIllusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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.
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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 like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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