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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIt is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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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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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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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