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“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”

Source: A Writer's Diary

“Her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone.”

Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando

“I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”

Source: Virginia Woolf

“Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.”

Source: Selected Letters

“But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.”

Virginia Woolf book The Waves

Source: The Waves

“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.”

Source: On Being Ill

“If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?”

Virginia Woolf book Night and Day

Source: Night and Day

“Well, we must wait for the future to show.”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“Why must they grow up and lose it all?”

“I am not one and simple, but complex and many.”

Virginia Woolf book The Waves

Source: The Waves

“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.”

“So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.”

Virginia Woolf book Night and Day

Source: Night and Day

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.”

“A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one”

Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando

“Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.”