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Quote by Virginia Woolf
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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. – Virginia Woolf

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

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At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. – Satyajit Ray

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The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. – Florida Scott-Maxwell

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In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. – George Orwell

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The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. – Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958

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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender. – Walter Annenberg

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