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There are moments when one can...

There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Let us not take for granted th...

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I have a feeling I shall go ma...

I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.

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I often wish I'd got on better...

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

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Wind and storm colored July. A...

Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand, I carried a message. I came to the puddle. I could not cross it. Identity failed me. We are nothing, I said, and fell. I was blown like a feather. I was wafted down tunnels. Then very gingerly, I pushed my foot across. I laid my hand against a brick wall. I returned very painfully, drawing myself back into my body over the grey, cadaverous space of the puddle. This is life then

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I am rooted, but I flow....

I am rooted, but I flow.

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Again, somehow, one saw life, ...

Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

There is no stability in this ...

There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I need not hate any man; he ca...

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

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There was a serenity about him...

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

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But Sasha was from Russia, whe...

But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.

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For while directly we say that...

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.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Better was it to go unknown an...

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

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Growing up is losing some illu...

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

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To evade such temptations is t...

To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely then lust or gunpowder. The poet's, then, is the highest office of all. His words reach where others fall short. A silly song of Shakespeare's has done more for the poor and the wicked than all the preachers and philanthropists in the world.

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Love, the poet said, is woman'...

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

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She felt drawing further from ...

She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the safety and circumstance of married life, (she did not mind that) but life she heard going from her, and a lover.

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[She was singing] a senseless ...

[She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace she wore.

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In the 18th century we knew ho...

In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.

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Was there no safety? No learni...

Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?--startling, unexpected, unknown?

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