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The Waves quotes

Virginia Woolf

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“It is strange that we, who are capable of so much suffering, should inflict so much suffering.” Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“I am rooted, but I flow.” Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.” Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“we are not single, we are one” Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.” Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“A good phrase, however, seems to me to have an independent existence. Yet I think it is likely that the best are made in solitude.” Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“The truth is that I am not one of those who find their satisfaction in one person, or in infinity. The private room bores me, also the sky. My being only glitters when all its facets are exposed to many people.” Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“I do not believe in separation. We are not single.” Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us.” Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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