More quotes by Virginia Woolf

"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."
"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
"No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes"