“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Often I feel the different aspects of life bursting my mind asunder.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying what we think, then how little… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be seen whole or read from start to finish. What was seen begun - like two friends starting to meet… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And for some reason she held the sentence suspended without meaning in her mind’s ear, “…quite enough for everybody at present,” she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“she read, and so reading she was ascending, she felt, on to the top, on to the summit. How satisfying! How restful!… — virginia woolf Copy Share Image
“But he never looked at his daughter, and strode out of the room, leaving in the minds of the women a sense,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Her mind was like her room, in which lights advanced and retreated, came pirouetting and stepping delicately, spread their tails, pecked their… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind. Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I sincerely hope I’ll never fathom you. You’re mystical, serene, intriguing; you enclose such charm within you. The lustre of your presence… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Words... are the wildest, freest, most irresponsible, most unteachable of all things. Of course, you can catch them and sort them and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It was a splendid mind. For if thought is like the keyboard of a piano, divided into so many notes, or like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But what might be written in the book which had rounded its edges off in his pocket, she did not know. What… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Somehow the fact that only three or four hundred years ago these skeletons had been men with their way to make in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I have a perfectly romantic and no doubt untrue vision of you in my mind – stamping out the hops in a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He meant, perhaps, that the androgynous mind is resonant and porous; that it transmits emotion without impediment; that it is naturally creative,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.’ That will be useful.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Literature is open to everybody. I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass. Lock up… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The mind is certainly a very mysterious organ, I reflected, drawing my head in from the window, about which nothing whatever is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There's no doubt in my mind that I've found out how to begin at this age to say sth in my own… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
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