"When I cannot see words curling like rings……" — Virginia Woolf
"When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing."
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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 Cannot See Quotes
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty…
— Jacques Barzun
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Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes,…
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He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.
— Aubrey Thomas de Vere
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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a…
— B.F. Skinner
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Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.
— Joel Osteen
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Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see…
— Albert Einstein
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Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one…
— Wayne Dyer
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised…
— Mark Twain
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