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Better Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.
- The truer the facts the better the fiction.
- One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
- Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
- A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying…
- Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his…
- 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…
- 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…
- We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of…
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