It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.Virginia Woolf
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.Virginia Woolf
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.Virginia Woolf
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.Virginia Woolf
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.Virginia Woolf
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.Nikola Tesla
We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.Theodore Roosevelt
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.Pablo Picasso
