When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't s... - Virginia Woolf

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

"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

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

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."

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