Virginia Woolf Quotes, Weed Quotes, Lying Quotes

I am obsessed at nights with the idea of my own worthlessness, and if it were only to turn a light on to save my life I think I would not do it. These are the last footprints of a headache I suppose. Do you ever feel that? - like an old weed in a stream. What do you feel, lying in bed?

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Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

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Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

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The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

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The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

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The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Confused Quotes , Lying Quotes

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Lying Quotes , Father Quotes

...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future. With God all is Now.

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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

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War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.

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For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

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Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

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Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Dream Quotes , Lying Quotes

Die breite Masse einesVolkes?einer groÞen Lu« ge leichter zum Opfer f a« llt als einer kleinen. The broad mass of a nation?will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Lying Quotes , Fall Quotes

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

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