"Would there be trees if we didn't..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”

“When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.”

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

“Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.”

“Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.”

“Ogni nostra cognitione prÄ«cipia da sentimÄ“ti.All our knowledge has its origin in our preceptions.”

“(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.”

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

“What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.”