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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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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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Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is…
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...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the…
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London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my…
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and…
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends…
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Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand…
— William Shakespeare
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The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings…
— Kate Chopin
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In the opening chapters of the Book of Revelation the Apostle John tells us how on the Isle of Patmos he was…
— Roy Hession
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When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me…
— William Shakespeare
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The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the…
— Tom Waits
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I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.
— Pablo Neruda
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