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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWomen have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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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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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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

