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

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

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

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Dreams
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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? – Virginia Woolf

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alone
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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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Conformity
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Nature
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The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Nature hates calculators. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, its a painful, difficult search within. – Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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Nature

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. – Werner Heisenberg

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Nature

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A friend gave me a CD of the Pathetique Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started ta ta ta taaa. It was too long for me. I didnt understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love. – Gustavo Dudamel

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Christmas

Professional sports are something they cant control. – Troy Vincent

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Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks. – Dr.SunWolf, 2009 tweet, professorsunwolf.com [And a few years later comes the ad

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. – Ludwig van Beethoven

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Music