"Better was it to go unknown and leave……" — Virginia Woolf
"Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust."
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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf has 642 quotes on this site.
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
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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…
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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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More Arch Quotes
This quote is filed under Arch Quotes,
one of 104 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All experience is an arch, to build upon.
— Henry Adams
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A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.
— Emily Blunt
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger…
— Martin Luther
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Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
— Thomas Carlyle
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The resurrection is the keystone of the arch on which our faith is supported. If Christ has not risen, we…
— Dwight L. Moody
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Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development…
— King Hussein I
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A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.…
— Anthony Trollope
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Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists…
— Eugene V. Debs
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The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas…
— Matt LeBlanc
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