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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
- It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
- It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Best Quotes
- In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
- The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
- To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
- Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
- I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.
- How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year.
- Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
- My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.
- I love marriage.