More quotes by Virginia Woolf

"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."
"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."
"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."
"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."