Quote of Virginia Woolf: Masterpieces are not single and solitary...
Biography - Virginia Woolf:
English writer.
Born: 1882 - Died: 1941
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Born: 1882 - Died: 1941
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
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Quotes for: to think
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
Quotes for: experience
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
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