I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Second 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.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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 WOOLF