I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
VIRGINIA WOOLFSecond 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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 like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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