Virginia Woolf Quotes
"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.""Books are the mirrors of the soul.""The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.""Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.""I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.""Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.""Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.""As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.""A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.""The truth is, I am rooted, but I flow.""For if life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?""To the Lighthouse was then an evocation of childhood; it was also an inquisition into the nature of reality.""In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.""Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of children entering the house.""I am not one of those who believe that taking drugs produces a permanent bettering of the human mind. Every great writer, every genuine artist, has had the experience of being intoxicated by language.""There's something about the genuineness of that moment that is eternal.""Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.""The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder""For most of history, Anonymous was a woman""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"