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Been Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything…
- It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.
- Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a…
- For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has…
- Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
- Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.
- Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did…
- Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine…
- Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been…
- A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch…
- The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one…
- The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People…
- In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in…
- They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been…
- Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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