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 WOOLFI feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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