He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
VIRGINIA WOOLFLock 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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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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