Virginia Woolf
"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."
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"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."
"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."
"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."