Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.
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I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
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If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich.
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Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.
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We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities.
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Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.