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Mind Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty)…
- The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be…
- The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
- I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.
- The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
- He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the…
- But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to…
- But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up…
- Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl…
- But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It…
- The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.
- Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage…
- Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters…
- We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how…
- Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
- Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
- The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
- A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
- There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind…
- For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle