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 WOOLFMarvelous are the innocent.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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