There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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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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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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