Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. Virginia Woolf
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Virginia Woolf
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. Virginia Woolf
Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art. Virginia Woolf
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. Virginia Woolf
A woman must have money and a room of her own. Virginia Woolf
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Virginia Woolf
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Virginia Woolf
Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. Virginia Woolf
‘The proper stuff of fiction’ does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss. Virginia Woolf