I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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