"I will not be "famous," "great." I will……" — Virginia Woolf
"I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded."
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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 Adventuring Quotes
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Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others make me feel that they have saved me the trouble.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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I've done a lot of living and a lot of adventuring and I think that's very healthy, ya know. And…
— Joey Ramone
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
— Edmund Hillary
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Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in…
— Walter J. Phillips
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There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the…
— Walt Disney
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Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to…
— Amelia Earhart
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Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep…
— Alethea Kontis
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We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it,…
— Richard Bach
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Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be…
— Robin Sloan
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We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving,…
— Herbert Otto Gille
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Life is way too short to waste any time at all. All of us are getting older, and every moment…
— Innah Delos Angeles
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Keep adventuring and stay not a grown up.
— Ramandeep Singh
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