"The cold stream of visual impressions failed..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.”

“For nothing was simply one thing.”

“...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.”

“Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.”

“The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.”

“Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.”

“The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?”

“How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.”

“What holds attention determines action.”