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 history of mens opposition to womens emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. – Virginia Woolf

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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats—and one always secretes too much jelly. – Virginia Woolf

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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. – Virginia Woolf

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me. – Simone de Beauvoir

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The truth is, sex doesnt mean that much to me now. – Lana Turner

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Time tries truth. – Proverb

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