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13535 quotesSleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Sleep
Virginia Woolf
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Friends and Friendship
Virginia Woolf
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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Childhood
Virginia Woolf
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
People, Other
Virginia Woolf
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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Age and Aging
Virginia Woolf
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Poetry and Poets
Virginia Woolf
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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
Words
Virginia Woolf
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Professions and Professionals
Virginia Woolf
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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Writers and Writing
Virginia Woolf
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Idleness
Virginia Woolf
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All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
Pleasure
Alexander Woollcott
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There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
Present
Alexander Woollcott
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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.
Business
F. W. Woolworth
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The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Elizabeth Wordsworth
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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
Age and Aging
William Wordsworth
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Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
Light
William Wordsworth
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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.
Generosity
William Wordsworth
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
Childhood
William Wordsworth
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In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
Reverie
William Wordsworth
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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
Nature
William Wordsworth
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She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
Nature
William Wordsworth
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The child is the father of the man.
Children
William Wordsworth
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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
Flowers
William Wordsworth
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The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
Kindness
William Wordsworth
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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
Age and Aging
William Wordsworth
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun