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More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
I am rooted, but I flow.
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
