"To evade such temptations is the first duty……" — Virginia Woolf
"To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely then lust or gunpowder. The poet's, then, is the highest office of all. His words reach where others fall short. A silly song of Shakespeare's has done more for the poor and the wicked than all the preachers and philanthropists in the world."
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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 Adulterate Quotes
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Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that…
— William Shakespeare
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.
— El DeBarge
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Adulterate: Full price at the movies
— Nikhil Saluja
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You are realised by your uniqueness. Keep it unadulterated as much as you can. Once you adulterate it, you won't…
— Chandrababu VS
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