When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre
Virginia WoolfTell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how to speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depth of the sea instead?
Virginia WoolfI do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
Virginia WoolfBehind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that weโI mean all human beingsโare connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
Virginia Woolf