Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?
– Virginia Woolf
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- Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do. – Sarah Manguso
- Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary. – Rebecca McNutt
- Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair. – Mark Williams
- The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. – Jonathan Haidt
- It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex. – Morgan Matson
- Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair. – Janusz KorwinMikke
- Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair. – Janusz KorwinMikke
- Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from the chair to the bed and the bed to the chair. – Mitch Albom
- When an empty person sits on an empty chair, the chair will still remain empty! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- If one person has an imaginary friend they’re crazy, if many people have the same imaginary friend its religion – Iraniya Naynesh
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- Ego is like a mad elephant which is ridden by our blind heart and blind mind and which ultimately destroys our real selves – Kapil Kumar Bhaskar
- When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- A question that always haunts me. Why can’t people just be real? It’s easier being real than pretend being real. Give yourself a chance. – Manasa Rao
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- Get me a real chair – Jennifer A Nielsen
- One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man – Virginia Woolf
- Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women – Virginia Woolf
- In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances – Virginia Woolf
- Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet. – Virginia Woolf
- We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human. – Virginia Woolf
- Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life? – Virginia Woolf
- Well, we must wait for the future to show. – Virginia Woolf
- Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here, I in my satin; he in black and white? – Virginia Woolf
- I use my friends rather as giglamps : There’s another field I see: by your light. Over there’s a hill. I widen my landscape. – Virginia Woolf
- . . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. – Virginia Woolf
- And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking. – Virginia Woolf
- I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. – Virginia Woolf
- Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. – Virginia Woolf
- She came from the most worthless of classes – the rich, with a smattering of culture. – Virginia Woolf
- Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens. – Virginia Woolf
- Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences. – Virginia Woolf
- Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.] – Virginia Woolf
- I begin to be impatient of solitude – to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me. – Virginia Woolf
- Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love? – Virginia Woolf
- When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook-”a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases. – Virginia Woolf
- so that it may grow fatter and – Virginia Woolf
- No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. – Virginia Woolf