Quote by Virginia Woolf
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. – Virginia Woolf

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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf

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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. – Virginia Woolf

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf

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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. – Walter Pater

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I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. Thats where my heart lies. – Mark Burnett

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I didnt grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny – those are the things I got feedback on. – Lauren Graham

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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. – W. Somerset Maugham

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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. – Willa Cather

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Theres nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success. – Wilbur Smith

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Dont spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. – Denis Waitley

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