Quote by Virginia Woolf
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals wi

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

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

If we didnt live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, Ive no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. – Virginia Woolf

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Adventure
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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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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
War
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War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. – Gilbert Parker

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War

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. – Ron Paul

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War

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war. – Muammar al-Gaddafi

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War

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun. – Alison Lurie

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War

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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable. – Benjamin Spock

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Women

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame. – Robert Anton Wilson

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Time

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. – Leo Buscaglia

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Friendship

My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy providing for quality, affordable health care and keeping our nation and communities safe. – Cathy McMorris

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Health