When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA light here required a shadow there.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
VIRGINIA WOOLF