Lock 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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFOne cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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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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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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