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

"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."

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

"The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

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