The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.
Virginia WoolfIt is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.
Virginia WoolfAmong the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.
Virginia WoolfWhat is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.
Virginia Woolf