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Quote by Virginia Woolf
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added

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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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. – Virginia Woolf

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Intelligence
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Virginia Woolf
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? – Virginia Woolf

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relationship
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. – Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955

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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. – William H. Mauldin

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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. – Norman Mailer

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. – Mark Twain

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I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something. – Auguste Strindberg, Miss Julie, 1888

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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. – Marcel Proust

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I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before – being single, in a band, girls everywhere – would be over. – Gary Numan

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