You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
- 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?
- To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
- Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
- The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
- It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
- You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
- Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Best Quotes
- My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.
- It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
- After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.
- Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
- The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
- To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
- There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?
- Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.