"it is strange how the dead leap..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“The way to write well is to live intensely.”

“Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?”

“And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.”

“Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.”

“If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.”

“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.”

“Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.”

“The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.”

“It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.”