I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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.
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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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