The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThere 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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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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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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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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