To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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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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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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