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“To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity. Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame.”

— James Baldwin

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James Baldwin Quote: “To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity. Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame.”

“To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity. Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame.”

— James Baldwin

James Baldwin Quote: “To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity. Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame.”

James Baldwin Quote: “To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity. Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame.”

James Baldwin Quote: “To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity. Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame.”

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1. “I am rooted, but I flow.”

— Virginia Woolf

2. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

— Virginia Woolf

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3. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

— Virginia Woolf

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4. “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”

— Virginia Woolf

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5. “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”

— Virginia Woolf

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6. “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.”

— Virginia Woolf

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7. “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”

— Virginia Woolf

8. “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”

— Virginia Woolf

9. “Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”

— Virginia Woolf

10. “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

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11. “Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”

— Virginia Woolf

12. “I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.”

— Virginia Woolf

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13. “Thinking is my fighting.”

— Virginia Woolf

14. “Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”

— Virginia Woolf

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15. “It’s my choice, to choose how to live my life.”

— Virginia Woolf

16. “A light here required a shadow there.”

— Virginia Woolf

17. “I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.”

— Virginia Woolf

18. “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”

— Virginia Woolf

19. “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

— Virginia Woolf

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20. “What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”

— Virginia Woolf

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21. “The eyes of others are our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”

— Virginia Woolf

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22. “Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”

— Virginia Woolf

23. “Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”

— Virginia Woolf

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24. “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.”

— Virginia Woolf

25. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

— Virginia Woolf

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26. “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

— Virginia Woolf

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27. “Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.”

— Virginia Woolf

28. “My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”

— Virginia Woolf

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29. “I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.”

— Virginia Woolf

30. “How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”

— Virginia Woolf

31. “Language is wine upon the lips.”

— Virginia Woolf

32. “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”

— Virginia Woolf

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33. “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”

— Virginia Woolf

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34. “The way to write well is to live intensely.”

— Virginia Woolf

35. “Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.”

— Virginia Woolf

36. “To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”

— Virginia Woolf

37. “Without self-awareness, we are as babies in the cradle.”

— Virginia Woolf

38. “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”

— Virginia Woolf

39. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

— Virginia Woolf

40. “I’m terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.”

— Virginia Woolf

41. “Romantic love is only an illusion. It’s a story one makes up in one’s mind about another person.”

— Virginia Woolf

42. “My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?”

— Virginia Woolf

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43. “The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.”

— Virginia Woolf

44. “A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”

— Virginia Woolf

45. “Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.”

— Virginia Woolf

46. “People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.”

— Virginia Woolf

47. “Fear no more, says the heart...”

— Virginia Woolf

48. “The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?”

— Virginia Woolf

49. “They can because they think they can.”

— Virginia Woolf

50. “Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.”

— Virginia Woolf

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