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Others Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual coming of death.…
- But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves…
- Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
- The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
- Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
- I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of…
- Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
- To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and…
- No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the…
- I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for…
- I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note,…
- 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…
- To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to…
- 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…
- It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have…
- Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others
- I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
More Others Quotes
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- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
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- I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some… — Arthur Ashe
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
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