It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
- Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
- This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
- If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
- Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
- Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
- 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.
- Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
- 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.
- The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Best Quotes
- Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.
- Live truth instead of professing it.
- I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
- To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
- Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
- The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
- Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
- Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.