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Perhaps Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to…
- It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me;…
- Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that…
- I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
- The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
- Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely…
- What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation…
- That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your…
- For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it…
- We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget…
- ...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely…
- But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the…
- The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.
- Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths,…
- Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written…
- Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry…
- One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.
- I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden…
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- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun