When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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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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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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