Virginia Woolf

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations read more

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And read more

I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.