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 WOOLFWomen have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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