Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
- 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?
- Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
- Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
- Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Best Quotes
- Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
- I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.
- There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
- There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
- I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.
- It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
- The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
- War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.