Zitate, Sprüche & Aphorismen auf Englisch
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Virginia Woolf
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
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Virginia Woolf
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
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Virginia Woolf
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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Virginia Woolf
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Virginia Woolf
Righteous indignation . . . is misplaced if we agree with the lady's maid that high birth is a form of congenital insanity, that the sufferer merely inherits diseases of his ancestors, and endures them, for the most part very stoically, in one of those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
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Virginia Woolf
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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Virginia Woolf
So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball.
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Virginia Woolf
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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Virginia Woolf
Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.
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Virginia Woolf
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
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Virginia Woolf
The scratching of pimples on the body of the bootboy at Claridges.
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Virginia Woolf
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death-Percival-others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Virginia Woolf
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book becauseit deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
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Virginia Woolf
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Virginia Woolf
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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Virginia Woolf
Why are women . . . so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Virginia Woolf
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.
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Hermann Wouk
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.