The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIt is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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