"Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of…" — Virginia Woolf
"Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life."
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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 Curtailment Quotes
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The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to…
— Marya Mannes
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Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that…
— Grace Abbott
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Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as…
— Alice Miller
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We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
— Ludwig Quidde
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I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent,…
— Dennis Chavez
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It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as…
— Alberto Manguel
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Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable…
— Virginia Woolf
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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government…
— Adolf Hitler
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