I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBlame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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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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