Quote from Virginia Woolf: “Lock up your libraries…

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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.”

– Virginia Woolf

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“Quote from Virginia Woolf: ‘Lock up your libraries…” sources:

• Portrait of Virginia taken in 1902 by George Charles Beresford – “George Charles Beresford – Virginia Woolf in 1902.” Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Charles_Beresford_-_Virginia_Woolf_in_1902.jpg
• Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. Project Gutenberg Australia, Penguin Books, 2004, https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200791.txt