Leonard Woolf quotes:

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  • Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

  • The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

  • Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

  • 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.

  • The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

  • There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

  • It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.

  • There is nothing to be said except about the sheer waste and futility of it all. It is the war all over again, when one is rung up to be told that Rupert was dead, or that one's brother was killed, and one knew that it was only to produce the kind of world we are living in now. Horrible.

  • At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

  • You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

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