And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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 am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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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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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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