When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLFFor books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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