"I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.”

“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?”

“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.”

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.”

“Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.”

“and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage”

“I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.”

“Those who stand on their toes are not steady.”

“One should use common words to say uncommon things”