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Virginia Woolf has 653 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
— Honore de Balzac
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
— Henri Bergson
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with…
— Donald Cargill
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
— Florence Nightingale
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to…
— Alexander Pope
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
— Karl Barth
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's…
— Susan Sontag
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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake…
— William Wordsworth
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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
— Edmund Burke
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
— Heraclitus
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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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