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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4c35931 | Heaven has mercifully decreed that the secrets of all hearts are hidden so that we are lured on for ever to suspect something, perhaps, that does not exist. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| db7e7d4 | Everyone has friends who were killed in the War. Everyone gives up something when they marry. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| af67c95 | I like observing people. I like looking at things. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| d49b0dd | He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unanswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait, and he will not come. It is for that that I love him. Oblivious, almost entirely ignorant, he will pass from my life. And I shall pass, incredible as it seems, into other li.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| d324bb5 | And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect, thought Clarissa, watching him open the door; for one would not part with it oneself, or take it, against his will, from one's husband, without losing one's independence, one's self-respect--something, after all, priceless. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 22d9fbe | To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are. | meaning-of-life | Virginia Woolf | |
| d6d4386 | The human frame being what it is, heart, body, and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 7ff65e0 | The journey is everything. Most necessary of all, but rarest good fortune, we should try to find some man of our own sort who will go with us and to whom we can say the first thing that comes into our heads. For pleasure has no relish unless we share it. | journeys love | Virginia Woolf | |
| c1070d8 | One does not love a place the less because one has suffered in it. | places | Virginia Woolf | |
| f31465c | It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 88af0f4 | It is strange that we, who are capable of so much suffering, should inflict so much suffering. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 8f32a6d | there was only the sound of the sea. | virginia-woolf | Virginia Woolf | |
| 05f9f25 | For nothing [...] is more heavenly than to resist and to yield; to yield and to resist. | yield | Virginia Woolf | |
| b7ebaac | I love tremendous and sonorous words. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| adc8cfb | Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life? | living | Virginia Woolf | |
| 986a5d0 | And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so that anything which I do finally incubate out of my system into words will quite certainly be about solitude. Solitude and the desirability of it, if one is to achieve anything like continuity in life, is the one idea I find in the resounding vacancy which is my head. | Vita Sackville-West | ||
| 487969d | Women made civilisation impossible with all their "charm " all their silliness." | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 2631b3d | He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been able to contemplate it fixedly might have led to something; and found consolation in trifles so slight compared with the august theme just now before him that he was disposed to slur that comfort over, to deprecate it, as if to be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| c71880a | Not as oneself did one find rest ever, in her experience (she accomplished here something dexterous with her needles) but as a wedge of darkness. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 24dce5d | I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| d8c5885 | Words... are the wildest, freest, most irresponsible, most unteachable of all things. Of course, you can catch them and sort them and place them in alphabetical order in dictionaries. But words do not live in dictionaries; they live in the mind....Thus to lay down any laws for such irreclaimable vagabonds is worse than useless. A few trifling rules of grammar and spelling are all the constraint we can put on them. All we can say about them,.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 3f01d6a | For there she was. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 5a326f9 | Love ought to stop on both sides, don't you think, simultaneously?' He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. 'But it won't - that's the devil,' he added in the same undertone. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 6d9046b | O friendship, how piercing are your darts - there, there, again there. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| bca78db | How could any Lord have made this world?... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no treachery too base for this world to commit... No happiness lasted. | christianity god lord skepticism | Virginia Woolf | |
| b192cfd | But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 93d0eb4 | Every man who has lived in the world and mixed with his fellow men will have remarked something which has remained hidden from the eyes of others; | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 2e772db | But nothing is permanent in this world. Joy in the second moment of its arrival is already less keen than in the first, is still fainter in the third, and finishes by coalescing with our normal mental state, just as the circles which the fall of a pebble forms on the surface of water, gradually die away. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 5ae7f8d | So many people there are so concerned about being socially conscious and environmentally aware, but they don't give a second thought to how they treat the guy washing their car or cutting their grass. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 9adb8a0 | Look at her. She does blossom under kindness. Just like a rose, opening her petals. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 52a4389 | You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. | george-lakeoff humor-inspirational political-humor political-science politics progressive | George Lakoff | |
| e100ab4 | one can be both free and economically secure while leading a totally meaningless and empty existence. | George Lakoff | ||
| 2a2cf0a | Lady, you who are so great, so powerful, that who seeks grace without recourse to you would have his wish fly upward without wings. | our-lady | Dante Alighieri | |
| 331736b | I by not doing, not by doing, lost | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 2f71e02 | Thus it was up to God, to Him alone in His own ways - by one or both, I say - to give man back his whole life and perfection. But since a deed done is more prized the more it manifests within itself the mark of the loving heart and goodness of the doer, the Everlasting Love, whose seal is plain on all the wax of the world was pleased to move in all His ways to raise you up again. There was not, nor will be, from the first day to the last n.. | paradiso | Dante Alighieri | |
| dd3546f | That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body. It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it, and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror. | heaven love | Dante Alighieri | |
| bc632da | Ahi serva Italia, di dolore ostello, / nave senza nocchiere in gran tempesta, / non donna di province, ma bordello. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 46f368a | You've built yourselves a god from silver and gold. How does that differ from idol worship, except Those people worship one god and you a hundred? | Dante Alighieri | ||
| beb6ccc | Marriage is a sacrament that exists partially to protect women from sexual exploitation. If you take that protection away from her, then she is little more than your mistress, no matter what you choose to call her. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 7153fe3 | It is said that once upon a time St. Kevin was kneeling with his arms stretched out in the form of a cross in Glendalough. . . As Kevin knelt and prayed, a blackbird mistook his outstretched hand for some kind of roost and swooped down upon it, laid a clutch of eggs in it and proceeded to nest in it as if it were the branch of a tree. Then, overcome with pity and constrained by his faith to love all creatures great and small, Kevin stayed i.. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 78c0e12 | We were small and thought we knew nothing Worth knowing. We thought words travelled the wires In the shiny pouches of raindrops, Each one seeded full with the light Of the sky, the gleam of the lines, and ourselves So infinitesimally scaled We could stream through the eye of a needle. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| bc8ec54 | Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass. | emotion hate love | David Gemmell | |
| a916073 | It is said a man doesn't get old while his mother lives. I think it's true. You are always a child in her eyes. It is irritating in the extreme. But you know, when they have gone, you'd give the earth just to hear them treating you like a child once more. | David Gemmell | ||
| a21d7f2 | We cannot hide behind high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time. | David Gemmell |