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Talk Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no…
- You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that…
- One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.
- For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and…
- For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn...
- Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art…
- Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of…
- Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though…
- I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is…
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