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Quote by Virginia Woolf
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said ab

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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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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Age
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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. – Virginia Woolf

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Clothing
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. – Virginia Woolf

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Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature. – Gustave Flaubert

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I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature. – Herbert Read

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Nature

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. – William Wordsworth

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Nature

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. – Ben Stein

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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat. – Naguib Mahfouz

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A mans friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. – Charles Darwin

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Stay humble. Always answer your phone – no matter who else is in the car. – Jack Lemmon

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Nothing external to you has any power over you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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