Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAs a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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