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 WOOLFAnything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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 was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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