Quote by Virginia Woolf
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth

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

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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Past
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. – Virginia Woolf

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power
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As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf

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Writing
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Other Quotes from
Dreams
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Whats interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams… conversations, nothing more. – Alice Englert

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Dreams

Most of my actor friends dont believe its possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away. – Genie Francis

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Dreams

Literature for me isnt a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. – Antonio Tabucchi

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Dreams

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams. – Eric Hoffer

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Dreams

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Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe. – Hartman Jule

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Advertising

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And thats my one fear: that everything has happened nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. – J. G. Ballard

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Fear

Enjoyed it! One more drink and Id have been under the host. – Dorothy Parker

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Parties

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942

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Imagination