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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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty.
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It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
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...situations evolve as matter responds to the conditioning of time and space...If you know what is contained in time from its beginning to its end you are somehow no longer in time. Even though you still have a body and still eat and do what you do, you have discovered something that liberated you into a satisfying all-at-oneness.
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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
