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No sooner have you feasted on...

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

He who robs us of our dreams ...

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

A biography is considered com...

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

While fame impedes and constr...

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I am overwhelmed with things ...

I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Night had come—night that she...

Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

When, however, one reads of a...

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

To read a novel is a difficul...

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

We do not know our own souls,...

We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Habits and customs are a conv...

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Never are voices so beautiful...

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

It is only by putting it into...

It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Every face, every shop, bedro...

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I attain a different kind of ...

I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Oh, is this your buried treas...

Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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How far do our feelings take ...

How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Life would split apart withou...

Life would split apart without letters.

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I need silence, and to be alo...

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.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Why is life so tragic; so lik...

Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Every season is likeable, and...

Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions??a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard??can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....