"Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic." — Virginia Woolf
"Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic."
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Virginia Woolf
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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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