Virginia Woolf Quotes, Time Quotes, Age Quotes

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

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In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

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Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?

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[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

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By Time and Age full many things are taught.

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While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less surely the nation that has played the part of the weakling must also die; and whereas the nation that has done nothing leaves nothing behind it, the nation that has done a great work really continues, though in changed form, to live forevermore.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

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How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

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I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.

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At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

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Nor age so eat up my invention.

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

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In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated.

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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

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It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

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Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?

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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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