Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA light here required a shadow there.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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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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