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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFGrowing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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