Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongu... - Virginia Woolf

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

"Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure"

"To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away..."

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

"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."