I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
VIRGINIA WOOLFHe smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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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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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 always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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 enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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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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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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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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