The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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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 feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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