The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
VIRGINIA WOOLFLock 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.
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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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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 was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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