"Blame it or praise it, there is..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.”

“The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.”

“On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.”

“What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.”

“It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.”

“When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.”

“The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.”

“Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.”

“Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.”