I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
VIRGINIA WOOLFLiterature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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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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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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