Leonard Woolf quotes
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“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
-- Leonard WoolfSource : Leonard Woolf (1939). “Barbarians Within and Without”
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“There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.”
-- Leonard WoolfSource : Leonard Woolf (1939). “Barbarians Within and Without”
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“The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.”
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“Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.”
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“You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.”
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“Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".”
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“At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.”
-- Leonard Woolf
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“In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.”
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“If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.”
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Source : Cressida Cowell (2017). “How To Train Your Dragon: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons”, p.15, Hachette UK
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