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True Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
- The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James looked at the…
- 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…
- Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his…
- It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had…
- She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of…
- I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the…
- Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do…
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
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- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
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- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
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