Virginia Woolf Quotes, Letters Quotes

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

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The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness

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For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

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Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought.

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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

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One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

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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

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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

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I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me. Out of my suffering I will do it. I will knock. I will enter.

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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.

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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

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How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

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I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

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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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Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.

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The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

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Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

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I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

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