Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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

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

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes...

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes...

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind...

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind...

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it...

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it...

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to...

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo,...

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo,...

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Language is wine upon the lips

Language is wine upon the lips

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming,...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming,...

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the...

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the...

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story...

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story...

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his...

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his...

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion...

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion...