Virginia Woolf Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.
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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
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Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
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My mother tried her best to give us a sense of self-esteem.
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I've always been interested in listening to people's stories.
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Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.
