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?

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life.