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Quote by Virginia Woolf
Its not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill

Its not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us its the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. – Virginia Woolf

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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf

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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we dont have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. – Virginia Woolf

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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. – Virginia Woolf

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A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that. – Kathleen Turner

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The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. – Margaret Walker

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. – Washington Irving

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi

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