"If people are highly successful in their profession……" — Virginia Woolf
"If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion."
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Virginia Woolf
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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf
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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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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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