There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLFLiterature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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