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Quote by Virginia Woolf
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. - V

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. – Virginia Woolf

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Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. – Virginia Woolf

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Experience
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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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Nature
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But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. – Virginia Woolf

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If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor. – Kate Beckinsale

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Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and dont tend to take themselves too seriously. – Dan Auerbach

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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. – Thomas Carlyle

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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. – Manuel Puig

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In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully. – Friedrich Schiller

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When a place gets crowded enough to require IDs, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. – Robert A. Heinlein

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Growth is the only evidence of life. – John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864

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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. – Saint Ambrose

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