Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
VIRGINIA WOOLF