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Existence Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and…
- All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage…
- There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the…
- He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
- Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
- When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
- At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society…
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- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac
- Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac