Virginia Woolf

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all ...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends c ...

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if ...

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in c ...

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compar ...

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if ...

Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all s ...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring ...

Life stand still here.