Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBooks are the mirrors of the soul.
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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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