The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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.
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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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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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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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