I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWhen I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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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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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.
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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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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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