"So that the monotonous fall of the..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.”

“Life's bare as a bone.”

“The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.”

“Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.”

“Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.”

“Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.”

“Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.”

“The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.”

“It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.”