Books are the mirrors of the soul.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnd all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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.
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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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