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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. – Virginia Woolf

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Truth
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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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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. – Aristotle

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I can still smell the green of the grass crushed beneath me. Feel the damp of the dew on my elbows. Hear the birdsong. – Kristina Turner, The Self-Healing Cookbook, 2002, originally published 1987

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Nature

Nature isnt positive in that way. It doesnt aim itself at you. Its not being unkind to you. – David Attenborough

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I walked barefoot — the only way to walk on a muddy road. – Laurie Gough, “Light on a Moonless Night”

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Music is lyrical literature… – Stendhal (tr. Coe), paraphrased, 1824

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Music

You cant wake up one day and say Im for gay marriage, and wake up the next day and say Im against it. Wake up one day and say, Im pro-choice, and the next day wake up and say, Im pro-life. Theres no credibility there. – Roger Stone

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Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesnt work for many people. – Katherine Heigl

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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers. – Joseph Wood Krutch

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environmental