If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
- Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
- Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
- We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
- For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
- If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
- Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
- It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
- It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
- Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Best Quotes
- I can't go to war with paparazzi.
- My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
- When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
- Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
- And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
- The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
- War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.