More quotes by Virginia Woolf

"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."
"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"
"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"
"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"