Virginia Woolf quotes - page 17

What if I told you I'm incapable of tolerating my own heart? (Virginia Woolf)
I am not one and simple, but complex and many. View quote
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Why must they grow up and lose it all? View quote
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Her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone. View quote
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Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing. View quote
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For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground. View quote
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Her heart was made of liquid sunsets. View quote
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I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire. View quote
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It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for. View quote
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We're all in the dark. We try to find out, but can you imagine anything more ludicrous than one person's opinion of another person? One goes along thinking one knows; but one really doesn't know. View quote
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I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted; I have been torn apart. (Virginia Woolf)
It is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people... Think of things in themselves. View quote
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We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence. View quote
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I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams. View quote
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Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent. View quote
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You're the only person I've ever met who seems to have the faintest conception of what I mean when I say a thing. View quote
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Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the center which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death. View quote
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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. View quote
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Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keeping. View quote
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When you are silent you are again beautiful. View quote
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Yes, I miss you, I miss you. (Virginia Woolf)
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. View quote
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It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality. View quote
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. View quote
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The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. View quote
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