Virginia Woolf Quotes
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

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I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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I am an African and I am very proud of that.
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
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Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.
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The beer was empty and our tongues were tiredAnd running out of things to say.She gave a kiss to me as I got outAnd I watched her drive away.Just for a moment I was back at schoolAnd felt that old familiar painAnd as I turned to make my way back homeThe snow turned into rain.
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So I've learnt that the world is 4,500 million years old. If you're very religious, then it's not 4,500 million years old, it's 6,000 years old. One of these is not correct.
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To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.
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I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. Understanding backward liberated me to live forward.
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There's also a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities.
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Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
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When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
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To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.
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Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.
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I don't know of any actor in any television show that I have ever seen who's given monologue after monologue in a television series.
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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
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You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.