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Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh
Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
Body | Indifference | Opinion |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
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Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it and sink it, until - you know the little tug - the sudden conglomeration of an idea at the end of one's line: and then the cautious hauling of it in, and the careful laying of it out?
God | Life | Life | Man | Nothing | Opinion | Vision | World | God |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.
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Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
She was writing for everybody, for nobody, for our age, for her own...
Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
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François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
It is genius that brings into being, and it is taste that preserves. Without taste genius is nought but sublime folly.
Admiration | Censure | Literature | Opinion |
May there be unison in the speech and action of humans. Only by this shall, unity emerge and serve each others’ purpose. The nation shall emerge stronger and mightier because of this.
If they have come on as citadels of the gods, if they have constituted an inspired charm as their armour, if they have gathered courage through the protections for the body and the bulwarks which they have made, render all that devoid of force.
Husband | Opinion | Relationship | Wife | Will |
Upton Sinclair, fully Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.
I discover that hardly a week passes that someone does not start a new cult, or revive an old one; if I had a hundred life-times I could not know all the creeds and ceremonies, the services and rituals, the litanies and liturgies, the hymns, anthems and offertories of Bootstrap-lifting.
Control | Freedom | Mind | Opinion | People | Present | Problems | Race |
Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.