To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
VIRGINIA WOOLFGrowing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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A light here required a shadow there.
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