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 WOOLFI 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
VIRGINIA WOOLF