It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
VIRGINIA WOOLFShe dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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 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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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