Quote by Virginia Woolf
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly

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. – Virginia Woolf

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. – Virginia Woolf

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. – Virginia Woolf

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. – Emily Dickinson

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But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. – Umberto Eco

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth. – Sara Teasdale

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