Brave Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Let us consider letters - how they come at breakfast, and at night, with their yellow stamps and their green stamps, immortalized by the…

— Virginia Woolf

“I suddenly realised that the devout Russian people no longer needed priests to pray them into heaven. On earth they were building a kingdom…

— John Reed

“There is no happiness like this: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead. They lived a Russian life, a rich life, interwoven,…

— james salter

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

— D. H. Lawrence

“For you, at least, are young; ‘no hungry generations tread you down,’ and the past does not weary you with the intolerable burden of…

— Oscar Wilde

“Good-by, then, old friend. . . . in that wider world of being of which this little Cambridge world of ours forms so infinitesimal…

— Stacy Horn

“To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way…

— Ernest Hemingway

“And yet they are in us, those who have long since passed away, as natural disposition, as burden on our destiny, as blood that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Their souls—or maybe just our memories of them—belong to that place which even the dead can only dream of, the miraculous place from which…

— Michael Haley

“  "Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!   To all the sensual world proclaim,   One crowded hour of glorious life   Is worth an age without…

— W. Lucas Collins

“A need to wander was in most Russians' blood, particularly the less well-off classes, and without positions, property, and status to fetter them, they…

— Jane Oakley

“Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk…

— Catharine Arnold