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

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

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Other Quotes from
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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. – Eleanora Duse

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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. – Wallace Stevens

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The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. – John Cage

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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. – Pam Brown

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Reject hatred without hating. – Mary Baker Eddy

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For time is the longest distance between two places. – Tennessee Williams

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All commands from your lips are sweet…. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. – William Feather

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