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 WOOLFNever let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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