"To be silent; to be alone. All..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.”

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

“The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.”

“I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.”

“Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.”

“When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.”

“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.”

“I imitate everyone except myself.”

“The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .”