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Work Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices…
- The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be…
- [Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
- To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
- It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
- I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering…
- Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of…
- ...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…
- How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and…
- Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in…
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- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
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- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson