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Quote by Virginia Woolf
Really I dont like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Really I dont like human nature unless all candied over with art. – Virginia Woolf

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. – Virginia Woolf

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Beauty
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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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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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War
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To me, photography is an art of observation. Its about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… Ive found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. – Elliott Erwitt

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Art

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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Art

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. – Franz Liszt

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Art

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Men have forgotten this truth, said the fox. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts. – Mao Zedong

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When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose. – Terri Guillemets

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Seek virtue rather than riches. You may be sure to acquire the first; but cannot promise for the latter. No one can rob you of the first without your consent; you may be deprived of the latter a hundred ways. – James Burgh, The Dignity of Human Nature: Book III. Of Virtue, 1754

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