"Never pretend that the things you haven't..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.”

“But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.”

“You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.”

“I'm an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don't get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet.”

“It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.”

“I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want.”

“Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.”

“The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.”

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”