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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

Virginia Woolf

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Cage Confidence Eyes Freedom Prison Self Love
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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Alone Consider Death Happen Silence World
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Century Power Reflection Serve Women
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Brain Light Room
And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Excitement Imagination Life One Liner
For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Book Each Other Habit Judgement Literature Separate
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Literature Opinion Reading Reason Writing
Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Consolation Divine Friendship Genius Love Moments
I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Age Aspect Believe Forever Sun
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

Book Freedom Gate Library Lock Mind
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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Effort Extraordinary Struck Tired Writing Wrong
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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Book Friendship Heart Leaf Past Shut
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Change Leaf Life Live Reality Tree
There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Cloud Consume Deep Night Peace Stars
Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Happiness Knife Melancholy Sad Separate Thick
To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Face Life Love Peace

I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

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