Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire oth... - Virginia Woolf

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."

"By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream"

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

"No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes"