"A whole lifetime was too short to..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?”

“Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.”

“All extremes are dangerous.”

“If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.”

“I get the most joy in life out of music.”

“Blood is a juice of rarest quality.[Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]”

“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”

“Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.”

“The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.”