Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
VIRGINIA WOOLFSecond 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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