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

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf

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Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. – Virginia Woolf

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I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And its not so much divine retribution as its built into the law of nature. – Pat Robertson

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I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them. – Bhagavad Gita

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Nature can do more than physicians. – Oliver Cromwell

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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. – Henry David Thoreau

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The mountains are calling and I must go. – John Muir

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Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you. – Jose Mourinho

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God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own. – Johannes Tauler

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