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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
VIRGINIA WOOLF