"Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast...." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.”

“The depths of the sea are only water after all.”

“It is the duty of the writer to describe.”

“When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.”

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”

“The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.”

“In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.”

“To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.”

“All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.”