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 WOOLFShe always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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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 am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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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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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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