Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of...

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of...

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the...

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the...

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing...

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing...

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over...

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over...

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine...

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine...

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them,...

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them,...

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most...

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most...

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following...

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following...

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...