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“At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.”

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Albert Schweitzer, born on January 14, 1875, and died on September 4, 1965, was a German theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He is renowned for his missionary work in Africa. more

“What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.”

World Giving Heart Moments Seems Chance Gone Planets Goes On Scene Toes Glimpse Lighting

Book:The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930

Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930

“Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the”

Ifs Men Mind Art Whole Lying Creativity Creation He Man Opposites Wide Accomplished Collaboration

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.”

Fiction Novel Brands Burning Antidote Slumber

Book:A Room of One's Own (Annotated)

Source: A Room of One's Own (Annotated)

“Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.”

Humans Different Sex Human Beings Clothes Female Opposites Males Gender Vacillation

Book:Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando: A Biography

“Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.”

Mind Looks Kind Form Sex Ill Look Up Humankind Harsh Fitting Fetters Harsh Truth

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.”

Men Stills Feelings Running Desire Names Cutting Blood Fame Concerned Publicity Irresistible Anonymity Tombstone Signposts

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on”

Thinking Mind Littles Able Process Strange Window Opposites Lays Pleasant Salt Indulge Phantoms Indulge In

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?”

Made Play Young Women Race Opinion Civilization Battle Blessing Discovery Importance Army Excuse Ignorant Empires Young Women

Book:A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

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