"But beauty must be broken daily to..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. Any help we can give you must be different from that you can give yourselves, and perhaps the value of that help may lie in the fact of that difference.”

“But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.”

“Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.”

“You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.”

“Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than anyconception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either intoweak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch theideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.”

“Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.”

“Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.”

“So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.”

“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”