"Novels so often provide an anodyne and not……" — Virginia Woolf
"Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand."
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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 Anodyne Quotes
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Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature…
— George Eliot
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Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
— Herman Wouk
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while…
— James Russell Lowell
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...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of…
— Unknown Author
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In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think…
— Paul Lockhart
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When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the…
— G. H. Hardy
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I don't feel any pressure at all because I don't care. That's an occupational hazard... but if you're doing anything…
— Ricky Gervais
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You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your…
— Jeanette Winterson
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