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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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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.
— Mark Twain
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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but…
— Francis Bacon
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Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage…
— Francis Parkman
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Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes,…
— Helene Cixous
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
— John Dryden
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
— Alexander Pope
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I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place…
— Michel Houellebecq
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They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely…
— Virginia Woolf
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We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and…
— William Golding
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In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even…
— Andrzej Wajda
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