Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA light here required a shadow there.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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 enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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