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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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