"But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard,……" — Virginia Woolf
"But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory."
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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf
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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 Bernard Quotes
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Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God.…
— Thomas Adams
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Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder.…
— Harpo Marx
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George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to…
— Dale Carnegie
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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
— Oscar Wilde
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Bernard Harris is a great example of the American success story. In Dream Walker he describes how he is trying…
— Craig R. Barrett
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Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His…
— Colin McGinn
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This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth…
— Alexander Nehamas
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Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and…
— Julian Barnes
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At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was…
— Alexander Woollcott
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So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the…
— Lincoln Steffens
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Bernard King is the only guy that ever scared the hell out of me.
— Dominique Wilkins
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Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative…
— Randall Kennedy
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