There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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