There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLFGrowing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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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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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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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