"Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught." — Virginia Woolf
"Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught."
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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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More Draught Quotes
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I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment…
— John Burroughs
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on…
— Maya Angelou
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But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or…
— George Arnold
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One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.
— Frederick Marryat
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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped…
— Zadie Smith
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Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips,…
— Thomas Noon Talfourd
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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
— Plato
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At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is…
— Plato
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One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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