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Leonard Woolf

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Also known as Leonard Sydney Woolf, Leonard Sidney Woolf

English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant (1880-1969)

Person · Open Library

Born
25 November 1880
Died
14 August 1969
Works
118

Top works

  • After the war
  • The future of international government
  • Beginning again
  • The village in the jungle
  • Empire & commerce in Africa

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Active from
2009

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Listeners
3
Total plays
66

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Quotes

  • 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.
  • Nothing matters, and everything matters.
  • Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to be or remain a civilized man.
  • The more complicated the life of a community or the more "advanced" the civilization, the more complicated, incessant, and severe becomes the control of instincts which is demanded from the individual.
  • Novels by serious writers of genius often eventually become best-sellers, but most contemporary best-sellers are written by second-class writers whose psychological brew contains a touch of naïvety, a touch of sentimentality, the story-telling gift, and a mysterious sympathy with the day-dreams of ordinary people.

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Leonard Woolf
date of birth
1880-11-25
date of death
1969-08-14
start of work period
1913-00-00
Commons Creator page
Leonard Woolf
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