Virginia Woolf Quotes
For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
Quotes to Explore
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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The world itself has become a smaller place. If you want to be remembered and create a legacy, you have to reach out to people. They want to know you. I can just say where I'm going, and Twitter will get it, and if there's a controversy, I can give my opinion. It's easier to communicate.
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We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.
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We shared our father with the world.
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People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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Excuse me Doctor, I think I now a little something about medicine.
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They have to pay people competitive wages and competitive benefits.
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Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.
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Sleep helps you win at life.
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
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A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.
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I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.
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We will continue to communicate with transparency and act courageously and responsibly to ensure the health and well-being of our partners and customers.
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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
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These proven positive consequences of elevated CO2 are infinitely more important than the unsubstantiated predictions of apocalypse that are hypothesized to result from global warming, which itself, may not be occurring from rising atmospheric CO2 levels. The aerial fertilization effect of atmospheric CO2 enrichment is the only aspect of global environmental change about which we can be certain; and to restrict CO2 emissions is to assuredly deny the biosphere the many benefits that accrue from this phenomenon.
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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
