3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
