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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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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
— Mel Brooks
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One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.
— Tilopa
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Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race…
— Kelly Miller
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This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster…
— Lord Byron
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Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
— William Shakespeare
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In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
— Lucretius
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Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
— Thomas Jefferson
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As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball…
— Kobe Bryant
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The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow…
— John F. Kennedy
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I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the…
— Isak Dinesen
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