Quote by Virginia Woolf
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. - Virginia

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. – 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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War
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Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women? – Virginia Woolf

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Men
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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. – Virginia Woolf

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Courage
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Other Quotes from
Sleep
category

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Sleep

Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Sleep

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Sleep

When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away,
And in a dream as in a fairy bark
Drift on and on through the enchanted dark
To purple daybreak–little thought we pay
To that sweet bitter world we know by day. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Sleep

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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. – Larry Wall

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An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor. – Alvan L. Barach

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. – Shirley Hazzard

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Imagination

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. – William Bartram

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Travel