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Quote of Virginia Woolf - You cannot find peace by avoiding...


Biography - Virginia Woolf:

English writer.
Born: 1882 - Died: 1941
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Vous ne pouvez pas trouver la paix en évitant la vie.

German
Du kannst keinen Frieden finden, indem du das Leben meidest.




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Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes for: peace


Quotes

Quotes about peace:


Perhaps peace is more than happiness.





There was never a good war, or a bad peace.





If you want to live in peace with yourself, you have to accept yourself as you are.





If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.





Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.






If you want to make peace there must be two people, you yourself and the neighbor opposite.











Quotes

Virginia Woolf also said...


Few people ask from books what books can give us.





In fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.





It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.





Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.





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





It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.












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