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 rooted, but I flow.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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