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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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