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Our Own Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to…
- Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.
- Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that…
- Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let…
- 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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- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann