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

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

"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."

"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"

"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."