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 WOOLFBetter was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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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 will go down with my colours flying.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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 need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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